Word: lend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measure, however, is far from a pure giveaway. For one thing, the loan guarantee is not a handout but simply the Government's pledge to reimburse private parties for the money, up to $1.5 billion, that they lend to Chrysler if the auto firm is unable to repay the loans. This promise should enable Chrysler to return to the money markets that have been closed for the past year. The automaker, moreover, will pay the Treasury an annual fee of at least 1% of the sum guaranteed...
...concerned with a decline in University support for the cultural center," Angela Belgrave '80 said after the meeting. She said the students had asked Epps to help them raise money and lend its support in other ways to the center, currently a single office in Phillips Brooks House...
...hunger for riches leads him on, only to prove that travel is narrowing and that no one can become truly rich until he looks into his hearth and soul. The back-in-your-own-backyard conclusion is timeworn, but the book's slow cadences and sprightly tones lend it the character of a legend that can never grow old because it was never young...
...tests, only math, physics and chemistry easily lend themselves to cross-cultural comparison, and U.S. college-bound students are generally better prepared in these areas, according to the test evaluators, Nevertheless, the Chinese youth come out pretty well, and may even surpass U.S. students in some of the liberal arts areas of the test. Educational Testing Services in Princeton has several copies of the USOE report and "they are analyzing them carefully," Barendsen says...
...computer bank of statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that often upsets traditionalists. Sniffs Mrs. Chebie Bateman, library director for Columbus, Miss.: "I believe in furnishing the books and letting the hardware store furnish...